Review of “Interstellar”

Director Christopher Nolan's INTERSTELLAR takes place in a future in which severe drought has killed most
of the world's crops, and humans are dying of starvation and disease on a doomed, dust-covered Earth.
Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) is a former pilot/engineer who, like the majority of Americans, has had to
trade in his defunct career to work as a farmer. Coop's love of science is evident in his young daughter,
Murphy (Mackenzie Foy), who swears there's a ghost in her bedroom leaving her messages in code. Coop is
unbelieving at first but then helps Murph decipher one of the codes, leading them to a secret lab run by
Professor Brand (Michael Caine), who heads what's left of NASA. Brand reveals that they sent a group of
scientists through a wormhole leading to another galaxy -- and that now a small group of brave souls must
embark on a mission to see whether any of those scientists found an inhabitable planet. Brand convinces
Coop to be the life-and-death mission's pilot, with the understanding that his time spent in outer space
could mean missing many years on Earth (one hour on one planet equals seven years on Earth) -- years that
he'd be away from his children. As the team tries to survive unthinkable odds, back on Earth, Murph grows
into a brilliant scientist (Jessica Chastain) obsessed with finding her lost-in-space father.